AUBREY

I am sure GOD knew what HE was doing when HE took
the tree away from then earth

dgrimm60

I kind of remember at some point in life a minister saying that the tilt or axis of the earth did change after the Flood. Not sure who this was, but I'm guessing it was one of the pastors that I had back in my teenage years. Or it could have been Doug Batchelor? But not sure.

pk

SIVARTM

THANK you for this link and it was interesting
about what different cultures thought about the tree...

dgrimm60

Yeah dgrimm60, I know you're right. I was really thinking aloud: did He do it knowingly, with the purpose of misaligning our planet, of setting us askew and off-balance? It was a rhetorical question.

Umm... only one flaw: an earth that was not tilted on its axis would *not* have a nice temperate climate all over. It would have no seasons, and would therefore consist of large zones of permanent deep-freeze around the poles, quite narrow temperate zones (much narrower than now) and a broad zone of constant hellish heat around the equator. However it got that way, it's precisly our tilt that makes life on earth as pleasant is it is over as much of the earth's surface as it is...

Yeah...but, it might have been different at the origin of creation. I mean, you know, I wasn't there. It might have been temperate all over the earth. It's fun to guess and to think of the possibilities. Even if they do sound absurd to the current trend of reasoning.

The firmament is the big mystery. What it was and what it did we will never know until heaven's gates.

Bravus, you might be right, what do I know? I'm just speculating wildly but the way EGW describes the antediluvian world in P&P it seemed to be topographically and temperature-wise different than it is now?

And now that I mention this, I'll never forget Dr. Geraty (famed Adventist archeologist) if anyone has found artifacts from the antediluvian period and he answered "No" with a very pregnant pause that made me read between the lines that all of this has either been intentionally shrouded from modern man or it lies within the realm of things we categorize as "mystery?"

Alex

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Alex

I didn't mean to put a damper on the discussion, at all. I think it's just that we invoke things as dramatic as an axis tipp a bit too lightly in talking about the Flood. And what's all this stuff with asteroids? Wasn't the Flood meant to be a divine miracle? If it was just a natural disaster that was kind of post hoc ascribed to God's action, that changes the meaning of the whole thing! (I have the same objection to people who explain away the crossing of the Red Sea as a tidal/wind event, the manna as acacia gum and so on... explaining miracles explains them away!)